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Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels; June 9, 1956) is an American crime writer. She is known for her best-selling novels featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, of which the first was inspired by a series of sensational murders in Richmond, Virginia, where most of the stories are set. The plots are notable for their emphasis on forensic science, which has influenced later TV treatments of police work. Cornwell has also initiated new research into the Jack the Ripper killings, incriminating the popular British artist Walter Sickert. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies. Early life A descendant of abolitionist and writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cornwell was born on June 9, 1956 in Miami, Florida, second of three children, to Marilyn (née Zenner) and Sam Daniels. Her father was one of the leading appellate lawyers in the United States and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. Cornwell later traced her own motivations in life to the emotional abuse she says she suffered from her father, who walked out on the family on Christmas Day 1961. She has said, "He was on his deathbed. We knew it was the last time we were seeing each other; he grabbed my brother's hand and mouthed 'I love you,' but he never touched me. All he did was write on a legal pad 'How's work?'"In 1961, Marilyn left with three children in tow and moved to Montreat, North Carolina. Ruth Bell Graham, wife of the evangelist Billy Graham took the wayward family in and arranged for Cornwell and her brothers, Jim and John, to be raised by Lenore and Manfred Saunders, who had recently returned from Africa. Marilyn Daniels, suffering from severe depression, was hospitalized. Cornwell turned to Ruth Bell Graham as an authority figure, and it was she who noticed that Cornwell's talent lay in writing and encouraged her literary efforts. A bright student, a capable cartoonist, and a talented athlete on the tennis court, Cornwell attended King College in Bristol, Tennessee briefly before transferring to Davidson College on a tennis scholarship (which she later rejected), from where she graduated in 1979 with a B.A. in English. Career In 1979, Cornwell began working as a reporter for The Charlotte Observer, initially editing TV listings, then moving to features, and finally becoming a reporter covering crime. In 1980, she received the North Carolina Press Association's Investigative Reporting Award for a series on prostitution. She continued at the newspaper until 1981, when she moved to Richmond, Virginia with her first husband, Charles Cornwell (married in 1980), who enrolled at the Union Theological Seminary. The same year she began working on the biography of Ruth Bell Graham, A Time for Remembering: The Ruth Bell Graham Story (renamed Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham in subsequent editions), which was published in 1983. The biography gained a Gold Medallion Book Award from the Evangelic Christian Publishers Association in 1985. It also, however, was a major blow to her friendship with Graham – they weren't on speaking terms for 8 years following the book's publication. Cornwell began work on her first novel in 1984, about a male detective named Joe Constable and met Dr. Marcella Farinelli Fierro, a medical examiner in Richmond, and subsequent inspiration for the character of Dr. Kay Scarpetta. In 1985, she took a job at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia. She worked there for six years, first as a technical writer and then as a computer analyst. She also volunteered to work with the Richmond Police Department. Cornwell wrote three novels that she says were rejected before the publication in 1990, of the first installment of her Scarpetta series, Postmortem, based on real-life stranglings in Richmond in the summer of 1987. The novel won her various awards including the British John Creasey Award, the French Prix du Roman d'Adventure and the American Edgar Award. Scarpetta series The Scarpetta novels include a great deal of detail on forensic science. The initial resolution to the mystery is found in the forensic investigation of the murder victim's corpse, although Scarpetta does considerably more field investigation and confrontation with suspects than real-life medical examiners. The novels generally climax with action scenes in which Scarpetta and her associates confront, or are confronted by, the killer or killers, usually concluding with the death of the killer. The novels are considered to have influenced the development of popular TV series on forensics, both fictional, such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and documentaries, such as Cold Case Files.Other significant themes in the Scarpetta novels include health, individual safety and security, food, family, and the emerging sexual self-discovery of Scarpetta's niece. Often, conflicts and secret manipulations by Scarpetta's colleagues and staff are involved in the story-line and make the murder cases more complex. Although scenes from the novels take place in a variety of locations around the United States and (less commonly) internationally, they center around the city of Richmond, Virginia.There are two remarkable style shifts in the Scarpetta novels. Starting from The Last Precinct (2000), the style changes from past tense to present tense. Starting from Blow Fly (2003), the style changes from a first person to a third person, omniscient, narrator. Events are even narrated from the viewpoint of the murderers. Before Blow Fly the events are seen through Scarpetta's eyes only, and other points of view only appear in letters that Scarpetta reads. Cornwell shifted back to a first-person perspective in the Scarpetta novel Port Mortuary (2010). Andy Brazil/Judy Hammer series In addition to the Scarpetta novels, Cornwell has written three pseudo-police fictions, known as the Trooper Andy Brazil/Superintendent Judy Hammer series, which are set in North Carolina, Virginia, and off the mid-Atlantic coast. Besides the older-woman/younger-man premise, the books include discomforting themes of scatology and sepsis. Jack the Ripper Cornwell has been involved in a continuing, self-financed search for evidence to support her theory that painter Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper. She wrote Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed, which was published in 2002 to much controversy, especially within the British art world and among Ripperologists. Cornwell denied being obsessed with Jack the Ripper in full-page ads in two British newspapers and has said the case was "far from closed". In 2001, Cornwell was criticized for allegedly destroying one of Sickert's paintings in pursuit of the Ripper's identity. She believed the well-known painter to be responsible for the string of murders and had purchased over thirty of his paintings and argued that they closely resembled the Ripper crime scenes. Cornwell also claimed a breakthrough: a letter written by someone purporting to b.... Discover the Patricia Cornwell popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Patricia Cornwell books.

Best Seller Patricia Cornwell Books of January 2022

: Ruth, A Portrait
4.5/512 REVIEWSBiographies & Memoirs$14.99
Ruth Bell Graham is known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. It was Ruth who influenced Billy, as his most trusted life-partner. In Ruth, a Portrait, we meet this fascinating and...

: Chaos
4/5594 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$7.99
“When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell.”—New York Times Book Review[PLEASE BOX:]CHAOSFrom the Ancient Greek ...

: Scarpetta
4/5259 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes an extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta novel.Leaving behind her private forensic pathology...

: Isle of Dogs
3/540 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$7.99
Patricia Cornwell’s novels of big-city police have taken this classic genre to a new level. Now, with this #1 New York Times bestselling novel, she outdoes herself, with a wry tale ...

: El cuerpo del delito (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 2)
0/50 REVIEWSWomen Sleuths$6.99
Segundo título protagonizado por la doctora Kay Scarpetta, la continuación de una de las series de novela criminal más exitosas de todos los tiempos.La Biblioteca Corn...

: Predator
4/5204 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
Investigating the disappearance of two sisters in Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta follows clues that twist and turn, leading her into the psychopathic depths of a jailed serial killer's mind.

: XXL-Leseprobe: Cornwell - Knochenbett
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Werfen Sie einen ersten Blick in Patricia Cornwells neuen Roman "Knochenbett". Diese XXL-Leseprobe zu Patricia Cornwells "Knochenbett" enthält neben einer ausführlichen Leseprobe auch Kur...

: Cruel y extraño (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 4)
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Cuarto título de Patricia Cornwell sobre la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta, contrinúa una de las series de novela criminal más exitosas de todos los tiempos.Ronnie

: The Bone Bed
4/51,060 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
From one of the world’s number top selling crime writers comes the extraordinary twentieth Kay Scarpetta novel.A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in ...

: Trace
4/5345 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
Now freelancing from south Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Investigating the death of a young girl, she must fo...

: La mosca de la muerte (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 12)
0/50 REVIEWSWomen Sleuths$6.99
Una nueva entrega de la saga protagonizada por la doctora Kay Scarpetta.Deseosa de empezar una nueva vida libre de los lastres del pasado, Kay Scarpetta decide cer...

: Southern Cross
3.5/534 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$5.99
Patricia Cornwell has a sixth sense about the men and women in blue. In Hornet's Nest, her page-turning novel abou...

: Polvo (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 21)
0/50 REVIEWSWomen Sleuths$6.99
Un cadáver envuelto en una tela poco común ha sido descubierto en el campus del MIT...Otro nuevo caso para la Doctora Kay Scarpetta.Kay Scarpetta, directora...

: Il libro dei morti
0/50 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$6.99
Dopo l'ultimo devastante caso che l'ha vista in azione in Florida, Kay Scarpetta si trasferisce a Charleston, nel South Carolina, dove apre uno studio di patologia forense con l'irrinuncia...

: Cause of Death
4/5267 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover the very human remains of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter. Together with her niece Lucy and police capta...

: Blow Fly
4/5309 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
A cold case turns red-hot when a death-row inmate renews his acquaintance with Dr. Kay Scarpetta in this “utterly chilling” (Entertainment Weekly) #1 New York Times...

: Identidad desconocida (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 10)
0/50 REVIEWSWomen Sleuths$6.99
Patricia Cronwell supera toda expectativa: se añade el doble aliciente que supone un cambio de escenario y la descripción de un momento de inflexión en la vida de Kay Scarpetta.

: Punto de partida (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 9)
0/50 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$6.99
Con Punto de partida, Patricia Cornwell vuelve a los orígenes de la carrera de la doctora Scarpetta con un relato que sondea el lado más oscuro del alma humana.E...

: Patricia Cornwell FIVE SCARPETTA NOVELS
4/529 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$44.99
“When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell," says The New York Times Book Review. From the author of The Bone Bed and Flesh and Blood,

: Flesh and Blood
4/5711 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
In this Kay Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper.

: The Scarpetta Factor
4/5329 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
In this provocative thriller, forensic expert Kay Scarpetta is surrounded by familiar faces, yet traveling down the unfamiliar road of fame....It is the week before Christ...

: Port Mortuary
3.5/5939 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
The world's bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell presents an extraordinary novel in which Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could ruin her professionally-and personally.

: El libro de los muertos
0/50 REVIEWSWomen Sleuths$6.99
En la decimoquinta entrega de la serie policíaca protagonizada por la brillante y mordaz doctora Kay Scarpetta, la forense se ha instalado en Charleston, donde ha establecido un moder...

: All That Remains
4.5/5312 REVIEWSFiction & Literature$9.99
#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in the third suspenseful novel in the forensic thriller series that begins with Pos...

: The Front
3.5/5125 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$7.99
When Patricia Cornwell introduced a quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters in At Risk, the result was electrifying. Now, America's #1 bestselling crime write...

: Spin
0/50 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$12.99
In questo nuovo romanzo il capitano Calli Chase è coinvolta in una lotta contro il tempo per sventare un terribile complotto che tiene in bilico il destino dell'umanità.All'ind...

: La jota de corazones (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 3)
0/50 REVIEWSWomen Sleuths$6.99
Tercera entrega de la intrigante y adictiva novela de la saga protagonizada por la doctora Kay Scarpetta.Las continuas desapariciones de jóvenes parejas y el posterior ha...

: Postmortem
4/5639 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
Discover the “dazzling…fascinating” (Los Angeles Times) forensic thriller that launched the New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta series from #1 bestselling crime w...

: Depraved Heart
4/5753 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
In Scarpetta, Patricia Cornwell has a character as strong as any in popular fiction" —Wall Street JournalNew York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the n...

: Post Mórtem (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 1)
0/50 REVIEWSWomen Sleuths$6.99
Un thriller protagonizado por la doctora forense Kay Scarpetta.Un brutal asesino siembra el pánico en Richmond, Virginia, al amparo de la noche. ...

: Unnatural Exposure
4.5/5272 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
Kay Scarpetta finds herself pitted against a possible bioterrorist in this suspense-filled read from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. When a ...

: Predatore
0/50 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$8.99
Per la polizia della contea di Broward, Florida, il caso è chiuso. Johnny Swift si è suicidato sparandosi un colpo di fucile al petto. Ma Kay Scarpetta non è altrettanto sicura. Sopratt...

: Book of the Dead
4/5254 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is starting over with a unique private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina. But in this thrilling #1 New York Times bestseller, her fre...

: Un ambiente extraño (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 8)
0/50 REVIEWSWomen Sleuths$6.99
Nuevo caso para la intrépida doctora Kay Scarpetta.Kay Scarpetta viaja a Dublín para investigar una serie de asesinatos cometidos en Irlanda diez años atrás. É...

: The Last Precinct
4.5/5178 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
Now Patricia Cornwell brings her millions of readers a novel concerning crimes with roots in a murder from the distant past. When Kay Scarpetta is mandated to investigate the 400 ...

: Quantum
0/50 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$8.99
Alla vigilia di una missione spaziale top secret, il capitano Calli Chase si rende conto che nei tunnel sotterranei del centro di ricerca della NASA qualcosa non va. Pilota della NASA, ingeg...

: Dust
4/5963 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
With unparalleled high-tension suspense and the latest in forensic technology, Patricia Cornwell once again proves her exceptional ability to surprise—and to thrill—in this electrifyi...

: Cruel and Unusual
4.5/5272 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
“A knockout” (People) of a thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.“Killing me wo...

: Causa de muerte (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 7)
0/50 REVIEWSWomen Sleuths$6.99
Séptima entrega de la saga protagonizada por la intrépida doctora forense Kay Scarpetta.A partir de la investigación del cuerpo del periodista Theodore Andrew Edding -...

: Red Mist
4/51,253 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
With high-tension suspense and cutting-edge technology, Patricia Cornwell—the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer—once again proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall...

: Autopsy
4/5679 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$14.99
In this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two wildly divergent and chilling murders....

: The Body Farm
4.5/5347 REVIEWSWomen Sleuths$9.99
#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller.Little Emily Steiner lef...

: Hornet's Nest
3.5/546 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$2.99
Patricia Cornwell turns from forensics to police procedures in her latest novel, Hornet's Nest. This book is less a thriller than a character study of the main characters: Judy Hammer...

: Body of Evidence
4.5/5394 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell’s classic forensic thriller, featuring gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.A reclusive author, Beryl Madis...

: At Risk
3.5/5167 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$7.99
Sparks fly and twists abound in this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling crime author Patricia Cornwell.Massachusetts state investigator Win Ga...

: From Potter's Field
4.5/5220 REVIEWSFiction & Literature$9.99
#1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this classic forensic thriller.An unidentified nude female...

: Black Notice
4.5/5277 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
In this #1 New York Times bestseller Dr. Kay Scarpetta is on a deadly mission that will pull her in two opposite directions: toward protecting her career or toward the truth......

: Point of Origin
4.5/5277 REVIEWSMysteries & Thrillers$9.99
The clues to a series of remorseless killings go up in smoke—and only Kay Scarpetta can find them in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Patricia Cornwell.“Sears...

: Una muerte sin nombre (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 6)
0/50 REVIEWSWomen Sleuths$6.99
Sexta entrega de la saga protagonizada por la doctora Kay Scarpetta. Este título es uno de los más exitosos de su trayectoria, dentro de la serie.Parece que Temple Bro...

: Inhumano (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 23)
0/50 REVIEWSWomen Sleuths$6.99
La doctora Scarpetta se enfrenta a uno de los desafíos más difíciles de su carrera.La médica forense Kay Scarpetta está trabajando en la escena de una muerte sumamen...

Best Seller Patricia Cornwell Audio Books of January 2022

: Port Mortuary: Scarpetta (Book 18) (Abridged)
30 November 2010Mysteries & Thrillers$12.99
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. "When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell." -The New York Times Book ...

: Trace: Scarpetta (Book 13) (Abridged)
25 September 2004Mysteries & Thrillers$12.99
The heart-stopping new Dr. Kay Scarpetta thriller from America's #1-bestselling crime writer.Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turne...

: The Last Precinct
17 March 2015Mysteries & Thrillers$26.99
The eleventh Scarpetta novel, in which the Chief Medical Examiner is under a Grand Jury investigation for murder. She knows she’s being framed and she no longer knows who she can trust…

: The Front (Unabridged)
20 May 2008Mysteries & Thrillers$9.99
When Patricia Cornwell introduced a quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters in At Risk, the result was electrifying. Now, America's #1 bestselling crime write...

: Hornet's Nest
17 March 2015Mysteries & Thrillers$19.99
In this first title of a new mystery series, Cornwell introduces us to a dynamic trio of crime-solver in Charlotte, North Carolina: Andy Brazil, an eager young reporter; Judy Hammer, the cit...

: Scarpetta: Scarpetta (Book 16) (Unabridged)
02 December 2008Mysteries & Thrillers$16.99
From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes an extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta novel.Leaving behind her private forensic pathology...

: Isle of Dogs
01 April 2015Mysteries & Thrillers$22.99
Newly installed superintendent of the Virginia State Police, Judy Hammer, and her right hand and confidant, Andy Brazil, are at their wits’ end trying to protect the public from the politi...

: Depraved Heart
27 October 2015Mysteries & Thrillers$22.99
Patricia Cornwell delivers the newest engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.Depraved Heart: “Void of social duty and fatally...

: Red Mist: Scarpetta (Book 19) (Unabridged)
06 December 2011Mysteries & Thrillers$16.99
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. Determined to find out what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months ...

: Flesh and Blood
11 November 2014Mysteries & Thrillers$19.99
It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their C...

: Cause of Death
01 January 2002Mysteries & Thrillers$19.99
On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in...

: Cause of Death: Kay Scarpetta Series, Book 7
12 September 2017Mysteries & Thrillers$8.99
It's New Year's Eve, the final night of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, and another poor soul has turned up dead. Ted Eddings, a scuba diver and investigative reporter who was...

: Book of the Dead: Scarpetta (Book 15) (Unabridged)
23 October 2007Mysteries & Thrillers$16.99
Unabridged CDs - 9 CDs, 11 hours From America's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel.

: Port Mortuary: Scarpetta (Book 18) (Unabridged)
30 November 2010Mysteries & Thrillers$16.99
The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. "When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell." -The New York Times Book ...

: Scarpetta: Scarpetta (Book 16) (Abridged)
02 December 2008Mysteries & Thrillers$12.99
From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes an extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta novel.Leaving behind her private forensic pathology...

: Quantum: A Thriller: Captain Chase, Book 1 (Unabridged)
01 October 2019Mysteries & Thrillers$25.99
A USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Amazon Charts bestseller.International bestselling...

: Dust: Scarpetta (Book 21) (Unabridged)
12 November 2013Mysteries & Thrillers$16.99
From the world’s number-one bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just re...

: Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert (Unabridged)
28 February 2017Nonfiction$23.99
From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world's most chil...

: Book of the Dead: Scarpetta (Book 15) (Abridged)
23 October 2007Mysteries & Thrillers$12.99
From America's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Dr. Kay Scarpetta novel.

: Point of Origin
17 March 2015Mysteries & Thrillers$19.99
This dazzling thriller pits Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta against greater odds than ever before.Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from psychiatric hospita...

: The Bone Bed: Scarpetta (Book 20) (Unabridged)
16 October 2012Mysteries & Thrillers$16.99
A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, o...

: Trace: Scarpetta (Book 13) (Unabridged)
25 September 2004Mysteries & Thrillers$16.99
When Dr. Kay Scarpetta, freelancing from South Florida, returns to Richmond, Virginia, at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her hel...

: Black Notice
17 March 2015Mysteries & Thrillers$19.99
Following the post mortem of a stowaway which reveals neither cause of death nor identity, Dr Kay Scarpetta travels to Paris in search of information. In Paris she is given a secret mission,...

: Unnatural Exposure
01 January 2003Mysteries & Thrillers$19.99
Filled with tension and continual surprises, Unnatural Exposure is a thrilling chapter in Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta’s life--and a triumph for #1 New York Times best-sel...

: Chaos
15 November 2016Mysteries & Thrillers$22.99
#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with the remarkable twenty-fourth thriller in her popular high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta....

: Paranoia
01 July 2020Fiction$12.99
Während sie einen Tatort untersucht, erhält Dr. Kay Scarpetta ein Video auf ihrem Handy. Als sie es abspielt, kann sie kaum glauben, was sie sieht. Denn die Aufnahmen stellen alles infrage...

: Body of Evidence
01 January 1994Mysteries & Thrillers$19.99
Late one night Beryl Madison turns off her burglar alarm, puts down her gun and opens her door to the man who has stalked and terrorized her for months. Hours later, her brutally mutilated b...

: Quantum: Il primo caso del capitano Calli Chase
22 November 2021Mysteries & Thrillers$9.99
Alla vigilia di una missione spaziale top secret, il capitano Calli Chase si rende conto che nei tunnel sotterranei del centro di ricerca della NASA qualcosa non va. Pilota della NASA, ingeg...

: The Scarpetta Factor: Scarpetta (Book 17) (Unabridged)
20 October 2009Mysteries & Thrillers$16.99
From the world's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Sca...

: Postmortem
01 April 2000Mysteries & Thrillers$19.99
Four young women have been found murdered-tortured and strangled in their own beds--all victims of the same brilliant monster. Using a skilled hand and the latest technology in forensic medi...

: The Body Farm
15 June 2016Mysteries & Thrillers$13.99
The Body Farm is a crime fiction novel by Patricia Cornwell. It is the fifth book in the Dr. Kay Scarpetta series. Abridged version. Kay Scarpetta is called in...

: Totenstarre (Ungekürzt)
26 October 2017Mysteries & Thrillers$9.99
Es ist ein idyllischer Sommerabend in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an dem Dr. Kay Scarpetta zu einer Radfahrerin in einem Park gerufen wird. Die Leiche ist starr, doch die junge Frau kann noch ...

: Cruel and Unusual
01 January 1993Mysteries & Thrillers$19.99
When an executed murderer’s fingerprints turn up at a new crime scene, Kay Scarpetta investigates. Prepare for the kind of riveting suspense this best-selling author delivers so well.

: Autopsy
30 November 2021Mysteries & Thrillers$14.99
In this relaunch of the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta hunts those responsible for two wildly divergent and chilling murders....

: The Scarpetta Factor: Scarpetta (Book 17) (Abridged)
20 October 2009Mysteries & Thrillers$12.99
From the world's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Sca...

: Spin: Captain Chase, Book 2 (Unabridged)
12 January 2021Mysteries & Thrillers$25.99
A USA Today best seller.Captain Calli Chase races against time to thwart a plot that leaves the fate of humanity hanging in the balance in this new...

: Blow Fly
17 March 2015Mysteries & Thrillers$19.99
The Twelfth Dr Kay Scarpetta Novel.Dr Kay Scarpetta has left Virginia in quest of peace but instead finds herself drawn into baffling, horrific murders in Florida, where she beco...

: At Risk (Unabridged)
23 May 2006Mysteries & Thrillers$9.99
A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, attractive but...

: Southern Cross
17 March 2015Mysteries & Thrillers$19.99
Following in the path of her blockbuster Kay Scarpetta thrillers, Patricia Cornwell's novel is a testimony to the singular versatility and narrative power of one of the country's best-read s...

: All That Remains
01 January 1994Mysteries & Thrillers$19.99
A serial killer is stalking Virginia’s young lovers, taking their lives and taunting police with a single clue: a jack of hearts. For two years, the meaning of this card has eluded FBI inv...

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Patricia Cornwell Biography & Facts

Best Seller Patricia Cornwell Books of January 2022

Ruth, A Portrait

Chaos

Scarpetta

Isle of Dogs

El cuerpo del delito (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 2)

Predator

XXL-Leseprobe: Cornwell - Knochenbett

Cruel y extraño (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 4)

The Bone Bed

Trace

La mosca de la muerte (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 12)

Southern Cross

Polvo (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 21)

Il libro dei morti

Cause of Death

Blow Fly

Identidad desconocida (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 10)

Punto de partida (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 9)

Patricia Cornwell FIVE SCARPETTA NOVELS

Flesh and Blood

The Scarpetta Factor

Port Mortuary

El libro de los muertos

All That Remains

The Front

Spin

La jota de corazones (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 3)

Postmortem

Depraved Heart

Post Mórtem (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 1)

Unnatural Exposure

Predatore

Book of the Dead

Un ambiente extraño (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 8)

The Last Precinct

Quantum

Dust

Cruel and Unusual

Causa de muerte (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 7)

Red Mist

Autopsy

The Body Farm

Hornet's Nest

Body of Evidence

At Risk

From Potter's Field

Black Notice

Point of Origin

Una muerte sin nombre (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 6)

Inhumano (Doctora Kay Scarpetta 23)

Best Seller Patricia Cornwell Audio Books of January 2022

Port Mortuary: Scarpetta (Book 18) (Abridged)

Trace: Scarpetta (Book 13) (Abridged)

The Last Precinct

The Front (Unabridged)

Hornet's Nest

Scarpetta: Scarpetta (Book 16) (Unabridged)

Isle of Dogs

Depraved Heart

Red Mist: Scarpetta (Book 19) (Unabridged)

Flesh and Blood

Cause of Death

Cause of Death: Kay Scarpetta Series, Book 7

Book of the Dead: Scarpetta (Book 15) (Unabridged)

Port Mortuary: Scarpetta (Book 18) (Unabridged)

Scarpetta: Scarpetta (Book 16) (Abridged)

Quantum: A Thriller: Captain Chase, Book 1 (Unabridged)

Dust: Scarpetta (Book 21) (Unabridged)

Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert (Unabridged)

Book of the Dead: Scarpetta (Book 15) (Abridged)

Point of Origin

The Bone Bed: Scarpetta (Book 20) (Unabridged)

Trace: Scarpetta (Book 13) (Unabridged)

Black Notice

Unnatural Exposure

Chaos

Paranoia

Body of Evidence